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  1. Arielle Popstar
    I've been considering one of the Dinkies as an avatar for one of my alts simply because they are cute but also because I am tiring of buying clothes, bodies, heads and makeup for my humans. It gets tiring and then always being looked at as a potential slex toy makes it even more so.
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    PheebyKatz understood the context of what I was saying and I suspect you did too but were being facetious. At least I hope you were because if not, it would take too long to explain.
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    William Blake did not live in a virtual world where all had a virtual identities on a medium that never forgets and the base men become emboldened by their own anonymity.
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    LL's business is selling or renting out land not giving creators a place to sell their creations that offer a service LL forgot to include in its beginner packages. LL giving out Translators to new residents as required would easily be seen as something that is both expected and normal in the pursuit of new active residents. It certainly would not be the first time LL has put out something that might be in competition to a store on the MP. Looking in my inventory I already see 2 full perm free translators I've picked up over the years and looking on the MP I see several more. That doesn't include the 6 or so free full perm ones I have picked up on other grids. Why should LL not be able to put out translators that are already free? If there are higher end ones being sold on the MP that is fine but that in no way should be a bar to LL making a free basic one available to those needing it.
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    In all fairness however it should be pointed that no one really blames the Moles or anyone else that contributes their time and talent inworld but rather those powers that be that set policies and procedures for how it will be. The lack of communication between residents and SL Lindens unfortunately leave Moles caught in between where I don't think any of us really meant them to be but by virtue of they being the ones that build out the what those managerials want (which some of us find lacking) Moles are not being blamed for those things even if they would be the ones that would supply the thing that is lacking. Take my example of available translators for example and the question to SL's Lindens would be where there is such a thing available for the many that come from other countries? That's not putting the onus on Moles but on SL for not having supplied what is likely to be an obvious need after so many years and yet is lacking. It shouldn't be left up to the individuals to bring in something so basic and essential. Other Grids I have greeted at had those right at hand for a new person to pick up and make themselves understood. Other's have pointed out examples of what could be included to make this more effective and efficient but we unfortunately talk to uncommunicative decision makers who seem to like the increasing exasperation experienced by both us residents and Moles.
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    So it was just the ad that was ai'ed and not the skin itself? I would personally love to buy a skin that was ai'ed as I have seen some very nice ones that were unfortunately still a part of the avatar.
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    I suppose that varies by country or region and on looking up what a felony is, I've never done anything that warranted a year or more in jail but have had some misdemeanors long ago which did seem to exclude me from ever being asked to do jury duty.
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    I think if you commit a crime you'll no longer be asked One way of getting out of it.
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    Yes considering the amount of non English speaking people that come here, I don't understand why SL doesn't make it a default and priority to make translators available for both Local and IM. This should not be hard to do considering the amount of free translators that have been passed around over the years. The lack of translators on default landing often makes it a tower of babble when interacting with new people not familiar with the language.
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    Being profiled does increase the success rate and would help inworld too with appropriate questions. As an example ones familiarity with English would help a great deal in knowing whether that noobie should be given a translator by default rather then depending they will find one to be able to makes themselves be understood or understand another.
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    Yeah see in r/l one can tell from body language and cues that someone is not open to interaction whereas inworld that is hard to tell. I noted that when I was greeting in another grid for a while that some like the interaction and had a greater rate of returning then others who either didn't answer at all or simply never returned. One would almost want noobies to prequalify by answering the question on avatar registration if they were open to being messaged or not and then be colored or some other visible sign if they were open to interaction or not.
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    You're assuming Tiny Empire player bots can't be scripted? You're assuming a login issue only vs multiple services? You're assuming avatars could still communicate? The outage I was referring to that was not possible. You're assuming a socially clueless avatar might not as well be a bot for all practical intents and purposes? You're assuming one who does not chat to others because they might be OVER-ENTITLED Time-Leech Social Vampire Clueless Bloody Idiots, actually has any friends at all? You're assuming you have evidence of the converse? Not bloody likely. Congratulation, a 6 face palm response, that is a record even for you.
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    Are they Tiny Empire players or Tiny Empire player bots? Still just a bot as their only use is to play the game. There been others who during outages when the grid was at 30K concurrency then noticed hours later that there were still 15K logged in leading to the speculation that 50% were bots or were so unaware that they couldn't do anything that they may as well have been bots. Bottom line is that only about half of the available concurrency is available for socialization or can be considered for adding to the actual economy for real estate or Creator sales.
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    Shaming only works at certain times for certain people who are already thinking there might be a problem with their lifestyle and only then from some one who does so in a non personal and judgemental manner. Anything less, puts those people into a defense mode so it becomes increasingly difficult to convince them of the error of their ways. People who are not concerned about their particular -ism don't see themselves as having a problem and as such don't think the shaming applies to them anyway because they are in a state of denialism that is pretty much impenetrable and even if they are a little concerned, often suffer from terminal uniqueness, where they feel their particular case is different from anyone else's that somehow magically makes it ok. There are also those who accept the consequences of their particular dysfunction and are ok with it at that point in time. It is again a waste of time and energy to be concerned of such as they will continue on until they die or they suddenly have a flash of inspiration that changes the path they are on and in those cases, that comes from an internal realization and very rarely from anyone else talking them into it. There are enough out there who see the problem and are looking for help to waste time on those who are not interested in any suggestions.
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    When there is a prize or a few Lindens for RTFM the rate for reading the manual goes up significantly.
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    You asked each of the dots if they were human? That just crazy!
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    What might be good is if the Lindens forget they rejected a particular feature request in past. I asked for a Ctrl+Z function in past for undoing inventory changes and was told that such a feature had been asked for before and either rejected or put on a back burner so with this new thing it might be worth asking again.
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    Wow those are some good shots. anyway seen a good estimate to be about 1 to 1, so as many bots as there is live avatars but really depends on how one defines a bot as there are plenty of avatars that act like a bot. Couple more years of AI and one may get better conversations out of a bot.
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    Yes I can relate in multiple ways. It has surprised me somewhat to be honest but I think part of it is because of being treated differently by the avatars I meet. In some ways the differing aspects of my alts are in some ways a reflection of those they meet.
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    I don't think it is great but preferable to that contingent of posters that feels a need to report every post or poster they are not in agreement with.
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    Not when overly sensitive types regularly misread what is written like you mentioned in the pet peeves thread about another poster.
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    No worries, I took your post as such.
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    Might make you feel good to be part of it as an activist but it tends to get awkward if such activists try too hard and take away the limelight from those who it is about.
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    What are the prizes? Can't expect people to come if there are no real prizes.
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    Yah I am saying this from the experience of hindsight too!
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